Michigan fans find love in ESPN blog comments section

Comment sections are mostly vile places where civilized conversations go to die violent deaths and where trolls rule their landscape like the cruelest of kings. But if you look closelyif you can crawl your way through all the detritus and debris and avoid the acidic arrows pointed at your heartyou might find love.

Kate Queram and Brandon Wagoner, originally known to each other only as bleu_girl_04 and AAWolv, met in the comments of ESPN’s Big Ten blog. The groom had been a Wolverines fan all his life, and even though the bride had been raised in Madison by parents who graduated from the University of Wisconsin, she matriculated to Michigan for college and then became an enormous Wolverines fan herself.

Wagoner and Queram wrote to each other online and gradually grew more flirty. Did Wagoner worried that Queram was catfishing himespecially in the wake of the 2013 Manti T’eo controversy and his fake girlfriend Lennay Kekua? Not really

“If she was a middle-aged man, she was a middle-aged man with a weird obsession with Bo Pelini who could make me laugh all the time,” he told the website. “I figured I’d take my chances.”

But as ESPN explained, “Brandon started getting nervous about being catfished, so Kate proved her existence by sending him a link to her Twitter page. He responded by sending her his Google-plus profile, which allowed them to chat offline. Soon, they exchanged cell numbers.”

Long story short: He called; they talked; he drove 12 hours from Ann Arbor to her home in Wilmington, North Carolina, to meet; they liked each other; they broke the news on the blog that they were a couple; he moved to be near her; and they got married earlier this month, during, of course, a Michigan bye week.